Read this article. The authors of the respective Twitter posts mentioned in the article are irresponsible and the misinformation potentially damaging.
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The New Indentured Servant Class
Most Workers Get Emails in Off-Hours From Bosses Who Expect a Reply
I don’t want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don’t want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day
Name the artist who wrote these lyrics and win a free white paper.
The white paper can be on the topic of your choice. Only one white paper will be awarded.
Attention Firefox Users
Technology News: Exploits & Vulnerabilities: Mozilla and Firefox 5: Upgrade or Die!
Your decision needs to be based upon priorities. Is having a safe and secure web browser more important than having all of your add-in programs functional?
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Free Small Business Software Alternatives
A couple of years ago I drafted a consulting proposal for a bunch of investors interested in starting a new life insurance company. The investors didn’t want to spend a lot of money on infrastructure, so I drafted a proposal that emphasized outsourcing and the use of cloud based software services that were either extremely low-cost or in some cases, free. I wrote:
The creation and implementation of a low-cost distributed collaborative workforce offers the new company an additional distinct competitive advantage in the industry… The new company will not be constrained by legacy systems, outdated processes, or asset quality issues. We will create an administrative infrastructure built upon low-cost world-class services furnished by companies with a proven track record of success. This simplified example shows how quickly and inexpensively a customized group of outsourcing partners can be assembled to provide core administrative services for the new company.
Since that time I have wanted to update my list of free software services but now I don’t have to. Stephen Murphy of getbusy media wrote a great little article which can be accessed though the link above. The other link is just something else I’ve been playing with.
And for the curious, no I did not get the gig two years ago.
Have a Plan for Business Continuity
Missing List in Joplin Tornado Drops to 156 – WSJ.com
“The Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce said Friday that at least 400 businesses and 5,000 jobs were affected by the tornado.”
If you click through and read this WSJ online article, you’ll notice a small video window. The opening picture of the video is an electric guitar embedded neck first into a wall of a house. I had never thought of my guitars as deadly weapons, but in the right weather conditions they are.
When I read about the number of businesses affected I silently hoped these businesses had disaster recovery and business continuation plans in place. Unfortunately, the most likely answer is no and most of these businesses will ultimately fail.
Not many of us think about total destruction from an F-5 tornado. But if you manage to survive at one point you will have to get back to work.
Time to spend some time revising my own business recovery and continuity plans.
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Multitasking – 04/23/2001
Interviews – Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
“It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another.”
This interview is worth reading in its entirety.
Flip is Dead
Cisco kills Flip, cuts 550 workers – Apr. 12, 2011
How to buy a business for $600 million (and with accounting charges added in) manage to lose $900 million two years later.
Read a Book a Week – 1Q 2011
The Kindle Swindle — Publishing Trends
This is an informative article on content farms and the early stages of spam in the world of digital publishing.
With ebooks exploding in popularity the issue of stolen content is going to be a huge issue.
It is with much sadness I must report I have read just five books in 1Q 2011.
Rethinking Multitasking
Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the Phone – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
Great podcast. I may be biased so here are my disclaimers:
- I have a dumb phone, not a smart phone
- My cell phone is for texting and talking, I use old-fashioned computers for everything else
- I don’t multitask, I uni-task
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